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RTC contract staff plans stir

HYDERABAD: About 12,500 members of the CITU-affiliated APSRTC Contract Drivers and Conductors’ Union will go on indefinite strike from the midnight of July 17 to press several demands, including regularisation of services and scrapping of the contract system.

P. Bhagat, general secretary, told a press conference here on Sunday that the union had served a notice on June 25 stating that its members would strike work any day after July 9. He claimed the support of APSRTC Employees’ Union and APSRTC Staff and Workers’ Federation.

The members would stage State-wide dharnas before the regional managers’ offices on July 19. In the city, they would go in a rally to the RTC MD’s office and stay put there till the demands were conceded.

The other demands included equal wages for equal work, payment of Rs. 6,500 and Rs. 6,000 as salary for a driver and a conductor respectively, sanction of 120 days maternity leave for women, only day work for women, sanction of three bus passes for each family etc.

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